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Portsmouth

Placename: Portsmouth
Layer: WALBS bios - James Walcott
Type: Other

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Latitude: 50.801389
Longitude: -1.109861
Start Date: 1829-08-14
End Date: 1829-08-14

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ID: t7995

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Location notes: Selected location near the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, though have not pinpointed the exact dock that the Wanstead departed from.
Date notes: We do not know exactly when Walcott arrived in England before departing for Western Australia. However we know that the ship he sailed on, the Wanstead, departed Portsmouth on 14 August 1829.
Biographical information: Walcott traveled to England before departing for Western Australia. He left London on the Wanstead on 14 August 1829, along with Charles Dawson Ridley. One of Walcott's children, Robert, was recorded as born in Western Cape Town, South Africa, in 1829. This was presumably about halfway through the journey [1]
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